{"id":301115,"date":"2021-07-16T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/curiosity-rover-detects-alien-burp-on-surface-of-mars\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:21:35","slug":"curiosity-rover-detects-alien-burp-on-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/curiosity-rover-detects-alien-burp-on-surface-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"#Curiosity rover detects ‘alien burp’ on surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Curiosity rover detects ‘alien burp’ on surface of Mars<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Did E.T. just belch?<\/p>\n

A so-called \u201calien burp\u201d may have been detected by NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover while exploring Mars.<\/p>\n

A group of scientists may have pinpointed the location of a mysterious source of Martian methane, a simple gas often produced by microbes. <\/p>\n

Most of the methane in\u00a0Earth\u2019s own atmosphere has biological origins, according to the researchers, which suggests that the detection of methane on Mars may hint at life on the barren planet. According to\u00a0Scientific American<\/a>, between 90 and 95 percent of the methane in Earth\u2019s atmosphere is \u201cbiological in origin,\u201d such as cow and goat burps. <\/p>\n

The Mars methane is likely not from the rover itself, as NASA checks the rover extensively.<\/p>\n

Curiosity has detected these methane blips six times since landing in Mars\u2019 Gale crater in 2012, but scientists could not find a source for them \u2014 perhaps until now.<\/p>\n

Curiosity uses an instrument called the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) to measure methane concentration nearby. On these six occasions, methane levels rose to 10 parts per billion (ppb) \u2014 and one time rose to 15 ppb. The TLS\u00a0can detect trace quantities of the gas at less than one-half part per billion, roughly equivalent to a pinch of salt in an Olympic-size swimming pool<\/p>\n

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Most of the methane in Earth\u2019s atmosphere has biological origins, according to the researchers, which suggests that the detection of methane on Mars may hint at life on the barren planet.<\/figcaption>
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology<\/a> modeled the methane gas particles by separating them into groups. The team traced the methane particles to their potential points of emission by looking at wind speed and the direction in which they were moving upon detection. The researchers determined that one of the likely methane sources was just a few dozen miles away from the rover.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The findings] point to an active emission region to the west and the southwest of the Curiosity rover on the northwestern crater floor,\u201d the researchers wrote in the paper<\/a>. \u201cThis may invoke a coincidence that we selected a landing site for Curiosity that is located next to an active methane emission site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Methane has a detectable life span of 330 years, meaning that whatever produced the methane in the first place may still be producing it today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we trust the methane abundances detected by both TLS and TGO and accept the 330-year methane lifetime from known photochemistry, our back-trajectory modeling for atmospheric transport strongly supports surface-emission sites in the vicinity of the Curiosity rover in northwestern Gale crater,\u201d the researchers concluded in the paper.<\/p>\n

It is also possible that methane is being produced by non-biological processes. But these findings can imply geological activity indicative of the presence of liquid water.<\/p>\n

Curiosity might also just be located near a local methane source \u2014 perhaps due to some subsurface phenomenon \u2014 which may suggest that there is no atmospheric methane on Mars.<\/p>\n

Curiosity has taken more than 800,000 pictures while traversing over 16 miles and spending 3,179 sols \u2014 Martian days \u2014 on its mission.<\/p>\n

Although the study has yet to be peer-reviewed, the results are one step closer to discovering life on Mars.<\/p>\n

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Curiosity has taken over 800,000 pictures while traversing over 16 miles and spending 3,179 sols (Martian days) on its mission.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThis would make this site interesting to visit, or other similar sites that could have the same properties,\u201d H\u00e5kan Svedhem, the project scientist for the European Space Agency\u2019s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), said in an interview with\u00a0New Scientist<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

These findings further the conclusions of other studies that aliens reside on the red planet. Last year, researchers hypothesized that alien life may have once existed miles beneath the surface of Mars. Another study claimed that microscopic aliens may come to Earth from Mars. And NASA even advanced the idea that alien life might be hiding in ancient caves on the red planet.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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